Former Twitter engineers raise $1M for stealthy startup Pushd

Pushd, a secretive startup led by former Twitter chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury, has raised $1.04 million in new funding, according to a a document the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released today.

Chris Carella, Pushd’s head of product, cofounded Subjot, a Twitter-like service focused on individual subjects. Subjot shut down last year.

Pushd engineer Matt Sanford previously led international engineering at Twitter after he joined from Summize, according to his LinkedIn profile. Another Pushd engineer, Ben Cherry, joined in November 2012 after being a front-end engineer at Twitter for two years, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Eric Jensen, a Summize cofounder who joined Twitter alongside Chowdhury, has worked on Pushd, including as its chief technology officer, although it’s listed as past experience on his LinkedIn profile. It’s unclear if he’s still involved. While at Twitter, Jensen worked on scaling the Twitter search tool.

We’ve reached out to Chowdhury and others who have been involved with Pushd, but we haven’t heard back yet.